Karl, it's not a silly question (as you'll see from the attachments)...
Just went through this last month & I've created a summary of the procedures
I followed. Unfortunately, it's not as simple as just installing the
Photran plug-in (even if you do the Photran/Eclipse "Full Version", there's
still a bunch of "stuff" that needs to be done). It isn't clear from your
e-mail whether you're Windows, Linux, Solaris or Mac (I guess it's either
Windows or Solaris since you ref. a zip file) -- I can only speak to Windows
XP. The attached (Word / text) files summarize my Windows procedures for
installing Photran into MyEclipse in MinGW/gFortran, MinGW/g95 and
cygwin/g95 environments. If you have an existing Eclipse 3.2.2
installation, then just ignore the MyEclipse references (except you'll need
to be sure you have CDT 3.1.2 installed before all else). If you already
have msys, msysDTK, MinGW, cygwin, perl, gdb, g95, and/or gFortran (or some
other Fortran compiler) installed, then you can just skip over those
parts...
Occasionally (haven't figured out the conditions yet), there's an
org.eclipse.jface error reported in the workspace .log file on startup --
seems to have something to do with closing MyEclipse while having the
MyEclipse J2EE Development perspective "waiting on the porch" (i.e. present
on the upper-right tab but not active) and having a Fortran project (with
a makefile) open. Yea, sounds off-the-wall. Don't think its had an effect
on anything (yet).
Be sure to back up everything before you start -- it's easier to just start
over than to try to back out of (a series of) errors. I had to start over
many times...
Hope this helps more than it hurts...
Regards,
Bob Hoffman
reh@xxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: photran-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:photran-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Karl Rudnick
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 5:27 PM
To: photran@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [photran] how to install photran-4.0-beta1.zip
Excuse for my naivete, but I have always installed plug-ins, new
features by adding a Remote Site (if necessary) and letting Help /
Software Updates / Find and Install do all the work for me. I am only an
occasional Eclipse user at this point.
When I grabbed the photran (in the subject line) .zip file, I thought I
only needed to click "New Archived Site" and point to the zip file. This
does not work. I get a message like:
"Network connection problems encountered during search"
If I look at Details, it says ...cannot find the file:
"/usr/local/share/eclipse/LocalPlugins/photran-4.0-beta1.zip!/"
I cannot get it to drop those last two characters, "!/", so it thinks
it's looking for a folder instead of a .zip file (I think). I also tried
point to a folder where I had exploded the zip and that didn't work
either. When I expand the .zip, I thought, from other documentation I
saw, that there needs to be a site.xml file in the top directory. This
file only has features/ and plugins/ folders, no site.xml .
I have never added a feature in this manner before, so I apologize in
advance as I'm sure this is silly.
Thank you -
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7/15/07
Notes: DON’T install anything in or under “Program Files” or any other directory with a space in the name.
Photran 4.0 beta 1 requires Eclipse 3.2.2 and CDT 3.1.2 (=>MyEclipse 5.1.1)
Photran/cygwin/g95 installation:
(1)Install cygwin in C:/cygwin (from http://www.cygwin.com/, click “Install or Update Now!”)
Click “next” (accept defaults) until the “select dialog” dialog box appears.
Expand the “devel” sub-directory, click (include) “binutils”, “mingw-runtime”, “perl”, “gdb” and “make”.
Click “next” and “finish”.
(2)Add cygwin bin & lib directories to your system PATH and LIBRARY_PATH variables (Control Panel>System>
Advanced>Environment Variables)
PATH ...;C:\cygwin\bin
LIBRARY_PATH …;C:\cygwin\lib
(3)Install g95 (from http://ftp.g95.org/#V0.9 )
Scroll down to the “Windows” g95-x86-cygwin.tgz section (bottom of page).
Download g95-x86-cygwin.tgz to root cygwin directory (C:/cygwin).
Open a DOS Command Prompt window and navigate to C:/cygwin.
Enter cygwin.bat to open the cygwin command environment
Enter “cd /”.
Enter “tar -xvzf g95-x86-cygwin.tgz”.
Exit the cygwin environment and close the DOS Command Window.
(4)Add g95 bin directory to your system PATH variable:
PATH…;C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
(5)Make sure a 1.5 or better JVM is installed
(6)Install MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 5.1.1 GA “All in One” (which includes CDT 3.1.2, from
http://www.myeclipseide.com/index.php?name=Downloads&req=viewsdownload&sid=15)
(7)Download the Eclipse_Photran feature (from http://www.eclipse.org/photran/download.php )
(8)Unzip the Eclipse_Photran feature into an “Eclipse Extension Location” (e.g. into C:/Photran_4.0_beta_1)
The resulting structure should look like:
/Photran_4.0_beta_1
/eclipse
.eclipseextension
/features
Photran sub-directories
/plugins
Photran sub-directories and jars
(9)Open MyEclipse and migrate to the “Manage Configuration” window (Help>Software Updates>Manage Configuration)
In the right-hand pane, click “Add an Extension Location”.
Migrate to the Photran_4.0_beta_1 directory and click OK.
MyEclipse will restart.
(10) Read/run the examples in ftp://ftp.swcp.com/pub/wlt/F/photran.pdf (replace any references to “F” with “g95” or “gFortran”).
This reference includes suggestions for creating new Fortran packages.
(11) Another useful reference I’ve found: http://slappy.cs.uiuc.edu/fall06/cs492/Group1/ and the “Final Report” referenced
therein.
Photran/MinGW/g95 installation:
(1)Install msysDTK (from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml#hdr2), which will also install msys (defaults to
C:/msys/…)
(2)Install mingw & gdb into C:/msys/1.0/MinGW (from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml#hdr2 ).
(3)Install g95 into C:/msys/1.0/MinGW (from http://ftp.g95.org/#V0.9, g95-MinGW.exe).
(4)Add mingw & g95 to your system PATH and LIBRARY_PATH variables:
PATH …;C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\msys\1.0\MinGW\bin
LIBRARY_PATH …;C:\msys\1.0\MinGW\lib
(5)…(11)As above.
Photran/MinGW/gFortran installation:
(1)…(2)As above.
(3)Install gFortran into C:/gfortran (from http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries, mingw build)
(4)Add mingw and gfortran to your system PATH and LIBRARY_PATH variables:
PATH ...;C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\msys\1.0\bin\MinGW\bin;C:\gfortran\bin
LIBRARY_PATH …;C:\msys\1.0\MinGW\lib ;C:\gfortran\lib
(5)…(11)As above.
To facilitate moving from one compile environment to the other, make the following system variables and values:
PATHCygWin = …;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
PATHMinGWG95 = …;C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\msys\1.0\MinGW\bin
PATHMinGWGFortran = …;C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\msys\1.0\MinGW\bin;C:\gfortran\bin
LIBRARY_PATHCygWin = …;C:\cygwin\lib
LIBRARY_PATHMinGWG95 = …;C:\msys\1.0\MinGW\lib
LIBRARY_PATHMinGWGFortran = …; C:\msys\1.0\MinGW\lib;C:\gfortran\lib
and copy the proper value into the PATH and LIBRARY_PATH variable values as needed.
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